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Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
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Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...accounts of cholera from his mother who had survived the Sligo epidemic. Worse was to come. the Irish famine of 1845-52 or The Great Hunger’ was a cataclysm in Irish history, leading to the death of over one million people and the emigration of up to 20% of the population. Stories spread of dark events - the dead unburied, cannibalism, and even corpses with mouths...
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Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...accounts. Answer The steam engine is clearly an iconic model. It is a different size from the original, but is the same shape and probably uses many of the same materials. A graphical model. The concept of a market, as used by advocates of ‘the free market’ is a mental model. However, some economists have also created mathematical models of markets, which they claim...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...account. Perhaps the most visible version of this situation was indicated by the suffragettes or blacks. Being ‘excluded’ from civil, political, and social rights for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, both suffragettes and black gained the rights that they didn’t have by claiming equality as well as difference. We may well remember that...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...accounts of how Angelique approached the situation to support Lakshmi. Activity 5 Finding a way forward Timing: Allow about 45 minutes Part A Listen to the following audio clip, where Angelique talks about how she thought of a possible way to help Lakshmi. Angelique I recognised that Lakshmi was struggling with her workload and that she didn’t seem to be as organised as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...account of the artwork, including its immediate effects, if you are asked to discuss that work in more detail. Activity 4 Recording the effects of some Turner Prize-related artworks Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes Now take a careful look at these works of art (Plates 3, 5a, 5b, 6 and 7) in the Resource booklet. For the moment, you should ignore the titles of these...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...account of logical thinking known as Boolean algebra, in his book Laws of Thought (1854). This work profoundly influenced some of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, advances in engineering technology made it possible for Boole's contemporary, Charles Babbage (1791–1871), to design, and try to build, the first recognisable computers: The Difference...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...accountable in our sessions and to have something to aim towards. INTERVIEWER Sure. So keeping you clearly on track and getting things to aim towards. SUBJECT Yes. INTERVIEWER And what's the very next step? SUBJECT Good question. My next step has to speak to my manager. I'm going good book something in his diary, tell him that I've decided on what it is I want to do with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...accounted for when creating your library development plan in Video 1. NICK Schools come in all shapes and sizes. There are primaries and secondaries, state schools, the independent sector, and academy chains. But whatever type of school you work in, we all have one common core mission, and that's to provide education. It's just how that mission is delivered might be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs